Recreation: RUHRGEBIET by EJC

[Mr. Beer 12]

I hope to your steel mill, german freeway system and more! Don't forget the World Cup 06 stadiums!

Cheers,

Mr. Beer

[E.J.C 9]

E.J.C REPLIES TO YOU

 

marius_nicolescu; As said before.. Updates will be as frequent as I play the game; and that will variate from week to week

xgriffinx: hahaha.. OK! thanx for that!! I will change it now.. and in the future I will spell it correct!! ( I've allready made some screens with "Müllheim" but after that I will use "Mülheim"!!)

And.. No it's not possible to upload the map. At least.. that's what I think -> I'm hand-terraforming the entire region. So, I don't know if there's some program to make a jpeg-file afterwards of it???

simrolle: It's nice to see some people from the region itself around here. I hope you guys really help me out and suggest me on some things I'm "doing wrong" or "could do better"

Zipme17: hey! what's that tower in your avatar? Is it "westpoint" in Holland..?? Or, different?

jacqulina: This is only, I think, 1/4 or 1/5 of the map in total as I'm finished terraforming..... So; stay tuned!!!

T Wrecks: Again, some-one from the region.. Or, someone who is familiar with the region. I hope I can cope with your expectations you all!!!

Uumke; You are from Germany?? Right? And you seem to talk in Dutch in your Sig..?? right?? :-) Explain!!! :-D

sc4portugal: You hit the "suscribe-button"??? hehehe..

[patriots_1228 51]

dude i love how you put the avatars in the replys.

aufwiedersehen! (oh yea ich spreche Deutsch)

[GreekMan 246]

i look forward to more!

[AfroThunda 1]

Wow, nice terrain... there is a lot of space for development there, looking forward to more!

-Afro

[Benedict 3,119]

I love the shape of your region. I know you will do the Ruhr area justice if your past CJs are anything to go by.

[Voulpiotis 4]

Very nice region!

[E.J.C 9]

QUICK PROGRESS UPDATE

[jacqulina 162]

so i see my friend still lots to do,but looking so great so far

[webmaster76 1]

hey, nice to see a german region at a cj :-) i like to follow this!

[stephenhh 44]

Cool, I used to live in Essen, and go there every year to visit friends. I lived in the south of the city, but I'm forward to seeing how you Altenessen. I promised one freiend there some bats from his districht, Huttrop, so I'd better get them done quickly :-)

The regional view looks brilliant

[Nardo69 51]

These regional views sure look good!

And when I see how you nestled the railway lines in the hills and especially in the rsmall river valley I am reallz look forward to see some detail shots in the near future (hopefully)  - ya know, I am just an old railway fan ...

Take care

Bernhard

[Mr. Beer 12]

Oh I think!!! My grandmother lives near Manheim and we did some visit to her sometimes... I can enjoy the lot of trucks that drive thru the A-5 ;-)

I now the region has a mall called "Centre O" in Buchum maybe and Gelsenkirchen is the home of a big reffinery and of a power plant with one of the german's tallest smokestack.

Have a nice day my friend!

[chix4free 0]

Nice to see EJC's back with this Ruhrgebiet CJ. Unfortunately, I guess the Paris CJ is over... unless I missed sth. 

Just to help, here are a few pix of the SIgnal Iduna Park (ex-Westfalenstadion) in Dortmund and the Veltins Arena (ex-Arena auf Schalke) in Gelsenkirchen. Both stadiums hosted WC'06 games

Signal Iduna Park (82,000 Bundesliga games, 65,000 Int'l games), home of the Borussia Dortmund (1997 Champions League winners)

Veltins Arena (60,000 Bundesliga games, 52,000 Int'l games), home of the FC Schalke 04

[RHMgerards 7]

those transport pics look really good!! i'm glad i can now see the layout and all that, will be waiting for the next update!!!

[Zipme17 18]

Looking cud, hope for more.

The building in the avatar is the Beetham Tower, Manchester, UK. Its home to the Hilton Hotel and some apartments. Tallest building in the UK outside of London and third tallest residential building in the UK. 171m. Set tp be surpassed by the Inacity Tower in 2009 at 188m, also in Manchester.

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

looking forward to see what you develop, i'm glad you're back!

[Mr. Beer 12]

Ha, summer 2006... football, football, beer, football, girls, beer... and Forza Italia (thanks Materazzi)... I learnt that Germany has the second most intersting american football league and some player from the USA come to Germany for one or two seasons...

Hope to see your next updates my friend!

Take care.

Mr. beer

[GreekMan 246]

nice shots, lookin nice

[jacqulina 162]

looking out for more my friend

[Scaley McSlither 1,714]

Great transport pics. I still have a very vivid memory of driving the Autobahn in a VW Scirocco @ 190km/h and having a Porsche blow past us on the way to Oktoberfest.

[Camaron 1]

Good to see another city journal from you E.J.C, good progress so far!

[E.J.C 9]

webmaster76: It still surprises me that there aren't that many European CJ's here.. There are enough BATs nowadays.. What's the prob? I think all of the diagonal streets etc

stephenhh: Hey! That's great to see you around here on my CJ. Your BATs are in great use with this region. Maybe, you could BAT me some single-family homes? Such like the white houses you'll find in all of the suburbs..

Nardo69: Well, with railroads, you will see massiv here in this region!! There are so many raillines here. ICE-trains, DB'-commutertrains and Expresstrains.. Combine that with a lot of stations, a lot of railyards.. and a lot of railtracks going between the mountains in Sauerland.. 

Mr. Beer: Centr-O.. I've been there once.. It's just so huge. The center is located I thought in Bottrop, or Oberhausen, just in the north of the region

chix4free: In fact, Paris region is not been totally lost. But, the plugins did to build up the region.. and my last back-up was missing. I'll post a pic of the region how it was last; check the blank city-tiles in the center of the city!! :-S :-( 2 bad... Maybe I will pick it up sometime.. But, don't think so.. Here you go my friend -> PARIS, the city of Love.. by EJC

Whow, what a project It has been....

Look; a real strange bug in my back-up; the game seems to spot the infrastructure, but I only get blank city tiles as I open them in the game.. :S Real strange

natuurzoon: Now only the main infrastruture is being layed out, wait untill I start the little streets and stuff.....

Zipme17: Oh ok, It reminds me of a tower in the Netherlands.. Still looking cool in a city like Manchester with so little highrises and then suddenly see such a enormous structure towering the city...

ilikehotdogsalot: i'm back.. I'M BACK!!!!

Mr. Beer: Düsseldorf Rheinfire YEAH!! :-P

mike_oxlong: Blowing out you vehicles on the Autobahn.. An experience that everyone should get hahhahaha

Camaron: Good to see you here fellow-trixie-winner!!

Coalmining and industry.. very common in Ruhrgebiet!!

The entrance to the region.. Autobahn E34/A40 from Venlo (NL) towards Dortmund.. Called the "Ruhrschnellweg" (Ruhr-Highway) Crossing the river "Rhein"  at this point in "Duisburg"

Hope you liked this first close-up shots

Cya E

[jacqulina 162]

awesome port it sure looks so realistic,awesome pics too my friend

[Mr. Beer 12]

Nice industrial area! Cool, I'll do a tour on Google Earth... ;-)

Take care,

mr. Beer

[Uumke 0]

very nice! in what cities are those big amounts of rail you've built?

Very interesting so far!

[webmaster76 1]

i agree with you E.J.C. it's easier to build straight roads...the european street style is very hard to copy, in the regionview it looks very cool and realistic but in game curved streets don't look very naturallly..

[stephenhh 44]

Goodness, how often I've gone over that bridge. I'll have to dig about in my photos of Essen, and see what I've got. I reckon mostly W2W Mietshauser like the kleine Mietshaeuser Pack.

[Krio 626]

Looking good, but why no water?

[RHMgerards 7]

cool, i rember crossing that big bridge when i went to germany for a couple of days, great close-up shots!!